title: CBRNE TC3: A Hybrid Approach to Casualty Care in the CBRNE Environment.
abstract: The implementation of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines for the Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom contingency operations has dramatically reduced preventable combat deaths. A study of these principles and their application to medical treatment in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives (CBRNE), weapons of mass destruction (WMD) environment is presented as a potential readiness and force multiplier for units engaged in this area of operations. Preparing medical operators for support of WMD sampling and mitigation missions requires extensive preventive medicine and post-exposure and downrange trauma threat preparedness. Training and equipping CBRN operators with treatment skills and appropriate interventional material requires pre-implementation planning specific to WMD threats (e.g., anthrax, radiation, organophosphates, and contaminated trauma). A scenario-based study reveals the tactics, techniques, and procedures for training, resourcing, and fielding the CBRN operator of the future.
authors.forename: Jonathan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Strain
mesh_terms: D055826:Afghan Campaign 2001-; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D053834:Explosive Agents; D008887:Military Medicine; D009683:Nuclear Medicine; D054044:Weapons of Mass Destruction; D014947:Wounds and Injuries
chemical_list: D053834:Explosive Agents